Inauspicious Times

In this collection of delicately crafted, poignant, often charmingly funnystories, Appadurai Muttulingam summons from the sweep of globalforces the intimate realities of human relationships. From Kandahar toNairobi, from the hills of Pakistan to the freeways of the Eastern Seaboard,Muttulingam s characters grapple with loss, change, loyalty, andconscience. In Sudan, a young engineer from Jaffna confronts governmentauthorities to help an elderly woman whose privations have touchedhim.In Afghanistan, a grieving old man, a young woman, and her lover arecaught in a life and death predicament ruled by accident and fortune. InNew England, a loving immigrant father reflects on his struggles inAmerica and the growing gulf that separates him and his daughter.Muttulingam probes the sorrows and comical absurdities of humanexperience in these and other stories of wit, beauty, and invention.